Buckle



INVENTOQ. 1.! lcfi ael flaw/1e ATTORNEYS.

M. HAWIE BUCKLE Oct. 27, 1931.

Filed Oct. 7, 1930 Patented Oct. 27, 1931 Li-r.

MICHAEL HAWIE, OF GREENS FARMS, CONNECTICUT BUCKLE Application filed October 7, 1930. serial No. 486,891.

- My present invention relates to rustless buckles of the type adapted for attachment to the end of a piece of web without stitching and is designed for use upon suspenders, hose supporters and the like.

Thepurpose of the invention is to prov de a simple and practical buckle structure WhlCll may be formed of a single piece of sheet metal v and-wire frame combined, securely fastened together, not hingedly connected as is Very generally practiced in buckles of this class. to

proportion and assemble the two parts so that the sheet metal member can be bent intermediate of its length around and secured to 1 aligned end portions ofthe wire frame and so that one of the upwardly deflected portions of the sheet will be longer than the other and secured to the frame forming a lower bar of the buckle, and so that the upper engaging edge portion of said bar will be deflected forward for engagement with the running portion of a web when threaded therethrough.

' Another object of the invention is to providea buckle that will have a relatively small front or upper exposed bar portion and will be otherwise light in weight and smoothly finished so as not to injure the wearer or garments of the wearer. A further object is to provide a buckle of this type wherein the 0 attached end of th'e web may be securely fastened by the use ofa minimum amount of web. p

:2 The buckle further permits but one threading of the web and one swedging operation for the attachment of the web and is equally well adapted for difierent thicknesses of web. While the engaging edge of the lower bar of the buckle, for the running portion of the web, is preferably provided with teeth, yet for 40 very thin webbing a more compact buckle structure may be used to advantage, having no teeth.

With the above and other objects in view, an embodiment of the invention is shown in 1 the accompanying drawings and this embodimentwill be hereinafter more fully described with reference thereto, and the invention will be finally pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings V Fig. 1 shows a front elevation, in an open position, of a buckle according to my present invention;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the buckle shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a piece of web supporting a hose supporter button-loop and showing a buckle according to the present embodiment of my invention attach-ed thereto. 7

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the buckle and attached parts shown in Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a central vertical sectional view through the buckle in an open position as. shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the end portion of a piere of web positioned thereinas in the assembling of the buckle and web; and Fig. 6 shows a central vertical sectional view through the buckle shown attached to the web, the latter being threaded through the buckle as in Figs, 3 and 4.

Similar reference characters indicate like or corresponding parts throughout the several Figs. of the accompanying drawings.

The buckle of my present invention, as herein disclosed, is formed of wire and sheet metal combined, including a wire frame member and a sheetmetal member which is firmly secured to the wire frame and provided with a bendable clamping member that-is used in the attachment of the webbing to the buckle by suspender and hose supporter manufacturers.

The method of attaching and threading the web in this buckle is somewhat like that used on other forms of rustless buckles and the buckle is in the same manner well adapted for adjustment and to different thicknesses of web. The buckle comprises an elongated structure having a transverse opening or slot therein to receive the running portion of the web. The wire and sheet metal members are assembled in a manner to form a relatively narrow round upper bar, which is exposed at the front when in use upon a web, while the lower covered poi;- tion is formed of the sheet metal member. Another important feature "of the buckle is that the sheet metal and wire members are rigidly secured one upon the other and are not hingedly connected together as is common practice in wire and sheet metal buckle structures.

The buckle herein shown is formed of a sheet metal member and a wire frame member 11, the two being rigidly secured together in a way to form an upper bar 12, a lower ,bar. 13 and; asweb; opening l i. The wire frame member in this instance is ofv a rectangular form and includes an upper bar 12 and a lower bar formed of the inwardly disposed aligned end portions 15. The side portions 16 of the wire frame each include anintermediate offset 17 whereby the upper" portion of the frame including the. web

opening 14, is slightly wider than the lower I portion in which the end ofthe webjisse cured, f

{The sheet metal member 10; of, the buckle is bent centrally around and "tightly upon the, aligned: wire 'end'portions'li' in; afway to, enclosethe same,,ferrule-like, f and to be securely attached thereto the; longer member .or' bar 1 13; being. bent upward inzspaced relation to theround upper bar, anditsears 18 disposed against-the sides 16; of the w re frame. The bar may further be provided 7 with a. series: of forwardly disposed teeth- 19 along;-, its. upper edge adj acentthe transverse 7 opening, 14 for the purpose of engaging the running portion fof the web when threaded therethrough. :This sheet metal member further. includes a; shorter web clamplng memberQO that is, bendabletoward the rear s'urface ofthe bar between the endsqof the .frame for the purpose of attachingthe. end

21 0f. the; web; 22 thereto. ;.The-; upperxedge portionof thisiclamping'member may: also be provided with a: series; ofiteeththatare preferably disposed forward, as shown: in

Figs; 2. and,l5., for the;purposeof'engaiging the end portion of the. web, when; attached 7 thereto. "This-attachment. is performed.- by.

inserting and positioning the web inthe buckle; frame, as, indicated in Fig; 5,, and then placingthe; same" under? a. foot? press whereby the; sheet, metal clamping portion 20 fis pressed down firmly-upon the; end of t-heweb just; hard enough to fonmafirrhattachment NVithOUtIiIIjHIy tothe, web. Ears 2 f areformed on theends of this-clamping member 20 to: engage; the rear side: of the iends of thelwire frame, inthe same'manner and; for the same purpose asthe' ears 18 on the fixed bar portion lSito engage the: front side. i It willbe noted, see Fig. 5, that-Shut ,arrelati vely; short length of: web is required inmaking thisfattachment. oftheweb tothe buckle thereby incurring a saving: of web Having-thus ILclaim;

iti v r 1 "1,:Abuckle, for attachmentandthreading got a; web,-.; comprising-a sheet metal; member ver the old 'methodsyas heretofore em;

and desire to! secure by Letters Patagend i tends, what 5 and an attached Wire frame member forming a round upper transverse bar having depending and inwardly disposed'aligned end portions, a lower bar portion formed of the sheet metal member bent longitudinally to close tightly around the aligned wire end portions forminga relatively. long. front bar member anda; relatively short rearclamping member,

thetwo said members being disposed upward and secured against opposite faces of the sideportions of t-he -wire frame member and both members having forwardly disposed upper gripping edges, there being a transverse opening between the round upper transverse bar andthelower sheet metal bar portion, the..rea r member, forming; at welirattachingmember bendable; toward, the; .rear surface of saidfront bar member and; against the Wire frame.member,-'the end of; a: length of webbing adapted tobe gripped tor'theinear side of the buckle betweensaid longenbar member and said attaching member andthere upon looped downwardly over said; attaching member and forwardly: and upwardly over said longer-bar and itsgripping; edge and from front to rear. through; said openingbes neath said. round upper ban.

2. Abuckle for attaohmentand threading of aweb; comprising a} sheet metal member and an: attached wire;framemembersfbnming a round upper t-ransversebar :haying depend:-

, ing. and. inwardly disposed aligned-.endiportions, ,a lower bar portion; formedofthesheet metal member bent to close tightly; around the aligned wire end portions forming a rela tively lon'g front and a relativelyeshort; rear member, the longer member'of-sai-dlowenbar portionbeing disposed: upward andfsecured againstone face of the sides-ofithewwire frame and in spaced relation to .the: round upper bar andghavingav series offorwardly disposed teeth along its upper transverse: edge-, there being a transverseopeningbetweem the round upper-bar 1 and the longer .member on said lowerbar portion and said rear'member-"be- :ihgbendable toward therearsurfaceof'said torearthrough; said openingbeneath said roundfbar. x

j I Signed at: Bridgeport," in bounty-of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, T this 4th "dayof- OctobenA. D,; 1930.. 3 

